@carolannie@petergleick I was lying in bed this morning reading about this tragedy. The absolute horror of water rising 26 FEET in 45 minutes is mind-boggling—my bedroom is on the 2nd floor of my house, 26 feet would have washed the entire house away! How do people prepare for that? how can there ever be “enough warning” for such disasters?
”….immigration agencies increasingly don’t appear willing to tie their agents’ actual identities to the president’s mass deportation operation being carried out on American streets. In return, Americans on the streets of California and elsewhere look like they’ve had just about enough of Trump’s secret immigration police snatching up immigrants and citizens alike.“
@br00t4c I spoke briefly last night with a man that I’ve been working with for the last several months. He confessed that without due process he’s very worried. I don’t think he’s worried in our community, but he travels a lot. What if he’s passing through a city where ICE is on the rampage, and he “fits the general description of”?
@ZLabe “The National Weather Service costs the average American $4/year in today’s inflated dollars — about the same as a gallon of milk — & offers an 8,000 % annual return on investment, according to 2024 estimates. It’s a farce for the administration to pretend that gutting an agency that protects our coastlines from a rising tide of disasters is in the best interests of our economy or national security. If the private sector could have done it better & cheaper, it would have, & it hasn’t.”
@GottaLaff Pelosi: “in the past, the party has always adopted a measured strategy when it comes to impeachment in order to avoid the appearance [of] it being a purely political.”
WTF? At this point of course it’s political! If Dem’s aren’t in favor of impeaching the most corrupt prez in the history of civilization then what do they stand FOR?
@aral “Our coverage guidelines are grounded in national clinical standards to help ensure the best possible outcomes for patients," Cigna Healthcare said in a statement.
Uh—-wouldn’t the best possible outcome for this patient be—(wait for it….) TO CONTINUE LIVING?
@WarnerCrocker Aren’t they gorgeous? I make the rounds of my town looking for specific trees to check on their progress. A nice change of pace from my never-ending doom-scrolling.
@inthehands My rep is a Dem, so I called the next closest one and gave his staffer an earful. She kept trying to stop me to ask me to identify myself so I gave her an alias and kept talking.
@br00t4c absolute insanity, but we expect that by now with this crew.
No one who has visited or lived in NYC can imagine what the city would be like without the subway system. It would be unlivable—-which I guess is the goal for this administration.